Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.